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From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Do moves add to repository size?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:17:26 +0100
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2008/12/31 Simon Chiang <simon.a.chiang@gmail.com>:
> Hey, I'm quite curious to know if moves/renames duplicate the file
> content in the repository (and hence grow the repository size) or if
> they just change the location of the content.  I want to drastically
> reorganize a repository and I'm wondering if will double it in size.

It wont double its size, but it will grow a little: the tree objects
which contain names of the data (the file names) will be all changed.